Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas from Noah, Eric and Cindy! We love you all!

New arrival

Man, I'm so glad this came in the mail this week. I was pretty sure that the exposed wires on my old one were going to become an issue soon.

Oh, you thought this was about our other new arrival...

Ok.

Introducing Noah Roger Badger, born Dec. 4 at 12:21 a.m. 7 lbs 1 oz, 19 inches! These pictures might be repeats for some of you, but I haven't taken a lot of new ones since we got home from the hospital. I do have a few, and I'll try and get around to uploading them soon. He's a wonderful little guy and we're loving being parents--even if it means some sleepless nights :)

Lots of updates

...but no way to do them full justice without pictures, and I can't upload pictures to my computer right now. So another time I will grab Eric's computer in between his end-of-semester work and studying and post them.

We've had a couple fun weeks, with a visit from Mom and Dad Badger and then a jaunt up to Albany (Clifton Park, to be specific) for Thanksgiving with my brother Alan and his family. While we were there, our wonderful photographer Jessica (Alan's wife) did a maternity session with us. The preview is posted on her blog at http://www.nosmallmoments.com if you want to peruse!

Little Noah is getting ready to join us, and we might be seeing the little guy a little sooner than originally anticipated. It might be nice if he could stick it out until Eric has finished his finals next week, but we'll be happy whatever happens :) We'll keep you all updated if anything is going on, so if you haven't gotten a phone call, there's probably nothing new to report yet!

Love you all! Happy holidays!

Site under construction

I needed to get to our archives and the design I had wasn't letting me, so it's ugly until I can fix it later today! I'm working on a digital scrapbook of the last two years and wanted pictures from when we were dating and such that I can't seem to find on either of our computers, but thank goodness for blogs :)

Good read

So I've been going to our Relief Society book club here in Mechanicsville, and I've really enjoyed the opportunity to get to know the other women in the group better. I absolutely ADORED the book we read this month, so I wanted to share for all my fellow book-lovers. It's called "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows.

I won't go into a full-on book review, but I will say that I loved the character development and felt like the writing was so genuine and...well, worth reading! It's a fairly easy read, but not because it's not well-written. Reading this book has actually encouraged me to go back and read or reread some of the classics I've neglected. I hope some of you will take my advice and read it!